via Email | Alison Piepmeier | August 2007

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April 10, 2007 | 7 p.m. | R.S. Smalls Building Auditorium | Free and open to the public

Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright, and performance artist, with well-known (and widely taught) books, including Gender Outlaw and Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. She’s also a male-to-female transsexual and a lesbian who talks about the ways in which her own identity challenges our society’s traditional gender system. She’s interested in providing support for students who feel that they don’t fit in (LGBT teens are much more likely to commit suicide that their straight peers) and in educating anyone who is confused about what “LGBT” means and what it means to be a transgender person.

A New York Times reviewer said of her, “In an age of often hostilely expressed gender politics, Ms. Bornstein gently leads audiences through her own psychic labyrinth without antagonism. She is sweet, sincere, lucid and sometimes as corny as Kansas in August. She really should have her own television show.”

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Department of Physical Education and Health, the Communication Department, the English Department, the Psychology Department, the Gay/Straight Alliance, the Cougar Activities Board, and CofC NOW.

Alison Piepmeier, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
PiepmeierA@cofc.edu
www.cofc.edu/wgs <http://www.cofc.edu/wgs>

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The College has initiated the BATTERY Project, which includes planning for, selecting and implementing a new complex suite of administrative computing applications matched with a new, single, integrated institutional data base.  Replaced will be the multiple legacy application programs and many separate databases currently used to conduct the administrative business of the College.  You know these applications as Cougar Trail, SIS, FRS, HRS, FRED, Recruitment Plus, Raiser’s Edge, and more.

The process entails collating requirements for the new system (often referred to generically as ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning), procuring new software and hardware within College and State guidelines, and implementing the new system – completing the implementation by the end of 2010.  The project is led by myself, Priscilla Burbage, VP for Fiscal Services, and by an Executive Steering Committee consisting of Provost Elise Jorgens, Sr. VPs Steve Osborne (Business Affairs), Sue Summer-Kresse (Institutional Advancement), Victor Wilson (Student Affairs), and Bob Cape (CIO) who has overall responsibility for BATTERY.

One of the critical steps in the planning process for a new ERP system is completing a “Functional Assessment” (defining and prioritizing requirements).  Your input as a College stakeholder during this Functional Assessment phase is crucial to the overall success of the BATTERY project.  The feedback you provide will also help us select the best ERP vendor and tailor that vendor’s product to best meet our needs.
The objective of a Functional Assessment is to determine what functionality exists in the current, legacy systems (such as HRS, FRS, SIS and others) and identify any new functionality necessary to create a system of the future.  You will be asked to evaluate and rate a number of functional requirements (according to your role at the College) based on level of need in a future system, and whether or not that functionality exists for you today.  You will also have the opportunity to add and rate requirements that may not be included.

To collect this input we will be utilizing DecisionDirector®, a web-based collaborative planning tool.  We will open the Functional Assessment in DecisionDirector next Wednesday, April 11th thru Friday, April 27th.  You will be receiving detailed information and instructions about accessing DecisionDirector and participating in the Functional Assessment on April 11th.  In the meantime, please feel free to contact me at burbagep@cofc.edu or x3-5578 with any questions regarding the BATTERY Project or the Functional Assessment.

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Making Changes in Software Applications Installed on Classroom/Lab Computers

Prior to the beginning of each semester at the College, Information Technology (IT) updates/adds software applications on the computers in smart classrooms, computer classrooms and in the Library Student Computing Center.  This service is designed to support the changing instructional needs of the faculty.

Procedures

If you would like to request a change in the applications currently loaded on computers used by you or your students, please send a work order request to Helpdesk (3-3375) or at helpdesk@cofc.edu with the following information:

1.  Name of contact person

2.  Name of the software package

3.  Software license and/or serial number

• For installation of textbook software on multiple computers, check to see if you must obtain written permission from the Publisher.  This will be stated on the license.  We can not proceed without this documentation.

4.  Software location

• On the web – Include the link in your work order request
• On a CD – Submit a COPY of the original software media installation disk to Goffery Davis, 322 JC Long Bldg. IT will retain this copy for maintenance and future installation requests.

5.  Location of the installation (classroom/lab)

6.  Date the software is needed (if other than the beginning of the semester)

7.  Any additional information that you believe is pertinent to the installation.

Deadlines

To assure installation of software for the beginning of a semester, the deadlines are:

Semester Needed                       Request Must Be Received by

Spring                                      December 1

Summer Sessions                      May 1

Fall                                          July 1

If you have any questions, please contact:

Goffery Davis, System Support Specialist

davisg@cofc.edu  | 953-5229

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